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Nico:

Check Harper and call me

Fuck. I call him while pulling up the tracking app on her ring. She’s not with Nico where she’s supposed to be. He picks up.

“Woke up. She wasn’t here.” Nico doesn’t elaborate. He doesn’t need to, and with our phone calls possibly being monitored he shouldn’t.

I look at the little dot outside of town. My heart stops. Where the fuck is she?

“Got it.” I hang up.

He still can’t drive. I’m the easiest to pull from practice right now or at least, second easiest. Jack’s a walking zombie, or he’d be the first one I would have called.

What the fuck is this? She should be with Kenz, but when I try to pull up Kenz’s phone on my app, the last location was the high school after the last bell.

Did we put our trust in the wrong person again?

Fuck. I grab my keys and run out of the locker room to the parking lot. The guys will know something’s up when I don’t come back to practice. I should grab backup, but two of us leaving practice won’t fly with Coach.

Outside of us, the only guys I trust are also on the team, and I barely trust them right now. Fuck it.

CHAPTER 16

The Picket

Harper

A chill creeps along my spine as we get farther from the road. I glance over my shoulder. I don’t even know if I could get back to where we were.

This is where trust comes in. I trust Kenz. She’s my ride or die. The guys just don’t know her like I do. She wouldn’t hurt me. There’s a reason she’s being ambiguous.

She’s implying my mom sent her, which makes sense. Who else could my mom contact that I would willingly go anywhere with? No one. Maybe one of the guys, but she knows all of us are being watched.

Kenz isn’t probably being watched as closely as we are, if she’s being watched at all. She might be being tracked since I’m with her sometimes. But I’m not with her all that much.

For now, she has my trust until she betrays it. Maybe it’s stupid of me to trust her. Maybe it’s stupid of me to trust the horsemen too. But I have to trust someone.

Kenz has a paper map out and a compass. When we step onto a dirt path, she releases a breath. I glance at the map, but I have no idea what kind of map it is. It doesn’t have roads on it.

“Thank fuck.” She grins at me.

“What?”

“So once we reach this path, there’s a jammer of sorts in this area.”

I swallow and touch my lifeline to my guys. The guys won’t know where I am. They’ll go fucking nuts, but Kenz keeps talking.

“No signals can get out or in. So if we still have a bug somewhere on us, we’re safe to continue.” Kenz turns the map and looks in both directions like she’s trying to decide which way to go.

“My mom sent you?” I have to ask. I love Kenz, but too much is happening right now. Too many spinning plates are ready to topple to trust I have the right information.

Kenz puts the map down and meets my eyes. Her eyes are completely serious. “My mom is in contact with yours. Apparently, whatever secret stuff your mom is involved in, my mom helps her. It’s like a network of nurses or something.”

That knot in my stomach loosens a little. That makes sense. But I need clarity. “How did you know about my secret word?”

“Jennifer figured it would be the only way to convince you to come with me, but she told me never to say it out loud in front of anyone or any device.” Kenz grins and gestures for us to walk to the left. “I meant it when I said this was some cloak and dagger shit. I kept worrying you were going to go full Bourne on me. Like you were keeping this kickass secret identity.”

“I’m not a spy. I’m still just me.” Sighing, I twist my ring. Do the guys know where I am? Are they worried about me? I never showed up at Nico’s.